Re: [tied] PIE prek'- ; prok' ; prk'- 'to ask'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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> alexandru_mg3 schrieb:
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> > b) Finally, I cannot see how we can arrived to Romanian
> > pricinã '(bad) cause, dispute, trouble, inquiry' from a PIE 'to
> > arrange' whatever loan path we could imagine...using or not the
> > preffix 'at'.
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> > Marius
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> take a look at the form which now is obsolete and not used anymore
> "price". It appears to me the word is the root for pricina/
> suffixed with "ina" but this one is given as being derivate from

an

> another Slavic word "prituc^a" which phoneticaly seems very

hasardate.

> So, if there is an "price" then what is this? Having the "pri"

there

> that doesnt mean this is slavic, see "pricepe" considered as
> derived from Latin percipere. If this is true, then "price" is

from

> Latin question "per que"= why. thus the question "perque > price,
> meant "why" and was was perceveid ( hei, it is the same word !!!)

as

> "which is the reason of it?", thus the sense "reason "is explained.
> Agree?
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> Alex
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I'm glad that you understand as I understand too: that 'pricina'
arrived in a natural way from a question,demand,raised-item finaly
from an "why?".

But seems there is another world near us where 'problem, issue' can
be derived from 'to arrange' :)

Now 'just imagine' that the PIE root for 'to ask' is prek'- and
it's zero grade *pr'k'-(i) gave in Romanian pric^ as *kWrs-ja gave
Crish etc...So no need for per-que here...

I wanted to ask Sergei too, if there is a word 'price' in Russian?

Marius